Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:22:53 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Early SPECWeb99 results on 2.5.33 with TSO on e1000 | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:36:04 -0700
"David S. Miller" wrote: > NAPI is also not the panacea to all problems in the world. Mala did some testing on this a couple of weeks back. It appears that NAPI damaged performance significantly.
http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linuxperf/netperf/results/july_02/netperf2.5.25results.htm
Unfortunately it is not listed what e1000 and core NAPI patch was used. Also, not listed, are the RX/TX mitigation and ring sizes given to the kernel module upon loading.
Robert can comment on optimal settings
Robert and Jamal can make a more detailed analysis of Mala's graphs than I. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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